§ 10702 Department Of General Services Exemption

• •Purchases of supplies or materials made through the Department of General Services are excluded from this chapter.
• •The exclusion applies even if the seller provides some extra service with the delivery.
• •The rule is about the type of purchase, not about the extra work the seller does.

A city office orders new computers from a vendor through the Department of General Services, and the vendor also sets up the computers on site.

Even though the vendor is doing the extra setup work, the contract for the computers is still not subject to the chapter’s rules because the purchase went through the Department of General Services.